Chicago: The Gravure Illustration Company, 1905. Hardcover. Folio. Published in nine parts, all in gold decorated original wrappers. The nine volumes are resting in a cloth portfolio with ties and title in gold on cover. Bottom right edge of portfolio split but still firmly holding. Some scuffing and staining to..... More
Wien: Anton Schroll, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant Folio (16 x 12"). 8pp., 57 plates. Original illustrated olive portfolio with black lettering on cover and spine housed in cardboard slipcase with printed label on cover. Color lithograph on title page. Portfolio of works from the Ohmann Master School of Architecture..... More
Montbrison: Imprimerie Éleuthère Brassart, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. 307/470. 20 copies were printed to deluxe paper. Elephant Folio. 23pp. 117 plates in heliogravure. Original brown half cloth over string-tied illustrated tan paper-covered boards portfolio with brown and black lettering on cover. Title page with publisher's device. Decorative head and endpieces;..... More
![Item #44832 Building [UNIQUE PRESENTATION COPY]. Feliks Topolski](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/44832.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1547687821)
London: Tersons Ltd./ Bildon Press, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. Unpaginated. A unique presentational copy for Sir Andrew M. MacTaggart, finely bound in a deluxe signed red leather binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Debossed gilt lettering and company insignia on the front cover, with gilt ruling on the front..... More
Петроград (Petrograd): Издательство «Свободное Искусство» (Liberal Arts), 1918. Limited First edition. Hardcover. 1/1000. Folio.157, [1]pp. Original printed dust-jacket over half green cloth and decorative paper covered boards. Pictorial endpapers. Decorative head-, tailpieces, and initials. Lavishly illustrated with 101 duo-tone photographic reproductions mounted onto heavy paper, this handsome volume documents the..... More
(東京/京城)Tokyo/Seoul: (朝鮮總督府) Chosen Sotokufu (Office of the Governor of Korea), 1932. Ex-library, first edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio. 16x12". (8) + 135 plates. (1). Modern tan buckram clamshell box, with black lettering on the spine. Decorative tan cloth boards with black Japanese lettering over a white label on the front cover..... More
![Item #39278 A Model Japanese Villa [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED]. Kazumasa Ogawa](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/39278.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1439339898)
Tokyo: Published by the author, 1899 (Meiji 32). First and only edition. Softcover. Large oblong quarto (14 3/4 x 11 1/2"). [1] leaf (Title), [15] leaves (Plates). Original string-bound stiff wrappers covered with decorative rice paper, with title pasted on front cover. Title inscribed in French and signed by Commander..... More
Stuttgart: Architektur-Verlag von Wilhelm Kick, (1900). Hardcover. [2],40 loose leaves resting in green cloth portfolio with decorative stiff-paper folding flaps, gold lettering on front board. Illustrated title-page. With 40 b/w photographic reproductions of interiors, exteriors, and veneers of four "modern" German country villas (* see below). Includes some architectural plans..... More
Cheadle, Cheshire; Liverpool; London: Architectural Students Association, 1943–1950. Softcover. Octavos, various formats, app. 30-40pp. each. Original gray wraps and red and blue lettering, 1943, glossy white two color illustrated wraps, some with b/w photographs, two color lettering, 1944–1945, and spiral-bound illustrated wraps with varying lettering, 1948–1950. Issues 1943 through 1945..... More
Boston: Bates & Guild Company, 1898. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/500. Folio. Half-cloth over paper-covered boards portfolio with string ties and cover-plate, as issued. Rebacked. "The designs presented in this book are those made by Mr. Edmund March Wheelwright, in the four years from 1891 to 1895, when he was City..... More
Paris: Editions Albert Lévy. Librairie centrale des Beaux Arts, 1929-1931. First edition. Hardcover. Volume 1; 8, 38 plates: Volume 2: 8, 42 plates, leafs resting in original 1/4 cloth over printed cover boards portfolios with string ties. Gold lettering on spines. Fascinating work on mural decoration. Most of the photographic..... More
![Item #42401 "Les Portiques" des Champs-Élysées [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE ARCHITECT]. Louis...](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/42401.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1491265740)
Paris: Lucien Serre et Cie. 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (15 1/4 x 11"). 57 leaves, [1] double-leaf, as issued. Original paper covered portfolio, with illustrated title on front cover. String tie. Illustrated title inscribed and signed by architect Louis Grossard to Engineer Debosnis "A Monsieur Debosnis, Ingénieur. Amical Souvenir..... More
Berlin: Verlag fur Kunstwissenschaft GmbH, c. 1910? Ludwig Hoffman. Hardcover. Gray cloth portfolio. Features 50 plates showing ornaments for gardens designed by Ludwig Hoffmann as architect and with Josef Rauch and Ignatius Taschner as sculptors. Photogravure images laid on gray woven card stock. Mostly photographs, some plans. Bottom flap at..... More
東京 (Tokyo): 天人社 (Tenjinsha), 1930. First edition. Softcover. Square octavo. 246pp. Tanned photo-illustrated paper wrappers, with green lettering on the front cover and spine. Housed on the publisher's original cardboard slipcase with black lettering on the front cover and spine. Striking b/w photo-montage on the front cover. This scarce work..... More
Amsterdam: N. V. Wed. J. Ahrend & Zoon, (1934). Hardcover. 40 plates resting in cloth spine over paper-covered portfolio with ribbon ties. Portfolio protected by modern mylar. Illustrations are b/w reproductions of architectural drawings by P. C. Kardol, mostly in connection with applications in engineering. Each plate protected by tissue..... More
Wien: Anton Schroll Kunst Verlag, [1906-1909]. Hardcover. Folio. 2 portfolios. Erste Serie [4] pp. with title page and foreword. Zweite Serie [8] uncut pp. with extra illustrated title page in blue tone gravure and printed title, forward and complete list of plates for vols. 1 & 2. A total of..... More
New York, Philadelphia: D. Appleton & Company. Geo. S. Appleton, 1849. New edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 80pp., (48) 48 plates. Rebacked retaining original dark brown leather at spine and corners over brown cloth. Illustrated by forty-eight original engraved plates, designed expressly for this work; all plates with descriptive, printed text on..... More
Berlin: Welt-Verlag, 1920. First edition. Softcover. Folio (12 1/2 x 9 3/4"). 56pp. Original printed wrappers. Lavishly illustrated throughout with 54 in-text photogravures, architectural drawings and floor plans, Alexander Levy’s "Building and Housing in New Palestine" is the most comprehensive architectural study on inexpensive and rapid building construction in the..... More
Berlin-Zehlendorf: Sieben Stäbe-Verlags- und Druckerei-Gesellschaft M.B.H., 1928. First edition. Softcover. Folio. 12 issues. Magazines housed in printed tan cloth portfolio with gilt ruling and red/brown lettering on cover and spine. Bauen und Wohnen der Zeit. Neue Folge der Wohnkunst - vereinigt mit der Münchener Halbmonatschrift Die Raumkunst - Das bürgerliche..... More
![Item #43435 Die Villen-Colonie Carlshorst [WITH] Die Villen-Colonie Schlachtensee. n/a](https://klinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/43435.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1515634520)
Berlin: Heimstätten-Akt.-Gesellschaft. Original document. Loose leaf. Elephant Folios. 2 Broadsides (18 x 11 3/4"). Original illustrated broadsides with black lettering. 1. Die Villen-Colonie Carlshorst Originally planned to house workers and public officials, as approved on May 25, 1895 in the so-called "Colonie-Consens," the plans for the construction of the colony were..... More
Berlin: W. & S. Loewenthal, ca. 1931. First edition. Softcover. Large Quarto (11 3/4 x 9"). 132pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers by Hermann Seewald, with red and black lettering to front cover; deckled edges. Lavishly illustrated with numerous b/w photographic reproductions, architectural plans and floor plans, this scarce work documents the..... More
Stuttgart: Carl Ebner, Kunstanstalt, (1908). Softcover. Folio. Rare complete set in four parts with 60 reproductions in photolithography and 22 architectural plans of various buildings designed for the German working class. All plates loose, as issued, protected by tissue guards. Lithographic photos printed on heavy card-stock, plans on thinner paper..... More
Cresswell, Oregon: H. H. Waechter, 1971. Original document. Softcover. Oblong Octavo. (2) 18 leaves text, 35 plates. Original light brown wraps with original lithograph of architectural design in red and yellow on cover. Prospectus of the offices of German-born architect Heinrich Hormuth Waechter (b. 1907 in Berlin), describing office services..... More
Worcester, Boston et al: Edward Livermore, Benjamin B. Mussey et al, 1852. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. iv, 7-148pp., LXIX plates. Rebacked with modern leather over original calf with gilt lettering on red leather label on spine; raised bands. Frontispiece engraving. Includes also a description of the Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian..... More
New York: The Architectural Book Publishing Co., ND (ca 1923). Reprint. Hardcover. Elephant folio (18 1/4 x 13 3/4"). [2] leaves (Title and List of Plates), 114 leaves (Plates) (Vol. 1); [2] leaves (Title and List of Plates), 115-231 leaves (Plates) (Vol. 2); [2] leaves (Title and List of Plates)..... More